A Houston pastor has come under fire for refusing to bury a
93-year-old woman who had been a member of his church for 50 years but
had not tithed enough as her death neared.
Barbara Day told KRIV
that she was devastated by the way pastor Walter F. Houston treated her
when she contacted him about a funeral at Fourth Missionary Baptist
Church for her mother, Olivia Blair.
“It was like the last insult in the world, there was nothing else
that I could do for my mommy but funeralize her in the church that she
loved and worshiped all of her life, even as a little girl,” Day said,
explaining that Houston told her that Blair “had not paid her dues, and
she had not attended the church in recent years.”
“For the last two years, my mother has been in either a nursing home
or she’s been in a hospital,” she pointed out. “And the last few months,
she was in a coma!”
Day said that she could not understand why Houston would force her to
find another place for the burial after her mother had supported him
for so many years, and her stepfather had also been buried at the
church.
“There’s no explanation for anybody that has been paying dues for a
church that long, for him to make me have to roll my mother’s body
around town, and somebody finally picks her up and says, ‘Yeah, we’ll do
the best we can,’” Day insisted. “They knew she was ill! They don’t
care! All they care about is getting money money money money money!”
READ MORE : http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/11/houston-pastor-refuses-to-bury-93-year-old-women-who-didnt-tithe-enough-while-in-a-coma/
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